Post publication peer review matters because pre publication peer review sometimes fail to identify critical problems: A letter about a review on lithium in tap water and suicide with Martin Plöderl: journals.lww.com/intclinpsychop…

Grief and Stress Increasingly Considered Illnesses Analyzing texts from 1970-2016, researchers find “concept creep” and increased medicalization of normal human experiences like #grief and #stress By Peter Simons #mentalhealth #sociology #psychology madinamerica.com/2024/08/grief-…

"Currently, as the psychiatric narrative falters new market opportunities are opening up, and brands with radical packaging – like ‘neurodivergent Marxism’ – may achieve considerable market penetration, even if the actual product is more of the same." madintheuk.com/2024/08/part-4…

I spoke for the Royal Institute of Philosophy on seeing purpose, rather than pathology, in madness, and what it means for the future of psychiatry. You can find it on my website if you’re interested.

"...would wipe away much of the current mental health epidemic that is so closely linked to financial insecurity, debt, lack of housing, loneliness, fear or feelings of failure and lack of purpose". 2/2 - Pro Dr Joanna Moncrieff joannamoncrieff.com/2022/03/28/the…

Pubpeer review summarises how a review claiming an association between lithium in drinking water and reduced suicide rates used an incorrect analysis pubpeer.com/publications/F…

Part 4 of series on neurodiversity suggests 'differently wired brains is the new chemical imbalance' and unpicks the consequences of the conflation of 'disorder' and 'identity' madintheuk.com/2024/08/part-4…

Another brave testimony about PSSD and 'the brutal effect that antidepressants can have on someone’s mental health when they nullify your emotional and sensual self' madinamerica.com/2024/08/i-am-c…

I am on holiday and recapitulating the history of esketamine, from the drug-trials to how it entered everyday clinical practice. It is a story that shows all the problems and corruption in mainstream psychiatry. It's saddening. If only front-line psychiatrists would know.

The official pictures from this year's BAP conference demonstrate the money and prestige that flow in from Big Pharma and the continuing corruption of psychiatry holeousia.com/in-the-world/a…

Peter Gordon responds to personal attacks and defends his efforts to bring more transparency into psychiatric education. 'It is shared to enlighten not to smear.' holeousia.com/2024/08/23/gen…

New paper finds that diagnostic mental health labels (e.g. 'depression') can - increase perception individuals require treatment - increase empathy & support - reduce perceived control people have over their problems & likelihood of recovery journals.plos.org/mentalhealth/a…

'pressures from target-driven education, online bullying, poverty and uncertainty about the future' will not be solved by mental health funding. Letters from Lucy Johnstone and others about increasing anxiety among UK children theguardian.com/society/articl…

Dr Joanna Moncrieff It's kinda like trying to fix the pain from being constantly hit in the head by taking pain meds. Instead of removing the club thumping away at you.

If this is true, it is very worrying. Does anyone else have insight into attitudes in schools?

Great to be a part of this much needed initiative The Psychotropic Deprescribing Council Psychotropic Deprescribing Council to help educate clinicians and the public about safe deprescribing of psychiatric medications. Congrats to @altostrata and the board for all their hard work.

Brilliant essay by Bruce Levine 'the more that Americans have bought the idea that there is an epidemic of mental illness ..., the more f**ed up we are all getting, and the more we enable a f**ed up society to become increasingly more so' counterpunch.org/2024/09/05/the…

The prescription makes the doctor feel better, rather than the patient. Could this be part of why antidepressant use continues to rise despite so little evidence of benefit and increasingly worrying adverse effects (as well as Pharmaceutical influence etc).

Fascinating piece by Justin Garson on the TI community and whether there are ways to find meaning in madness that mean we don't always need to 'give people stigmatising labels and pummel their brains with antipsychotic drugs.' aeon.co/essays/how-the…

A very interesting essay: 'I think we’re at the beginning of a renaissance of alternative approaches... The ultimate goal of these movements is to create safe, non-coercive, therapeutic communities that give people space to explore alternative, meaning-making frameworks'